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The System of Group-Centered Psychotherapy for Neurotics in Czechoslovakia

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.9.1227

The provision of adequate psychotherapeutic help to all who can benefit from it is perhaps a major problem in all civilized countries. The author reports on a system for the treatment of the neuroses established in Prague as part of the Czechoslovak Health Services, which he recommends as a model for community-based mental health services. A mong the advantages of the system, he feels, are its efficiency in the use of both professional and nonprofessional manpower and an emphasis upon interpersonal circuits of behavior, overcoming the one-person model of mental life.

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